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A mentor is someone that guides you on a path that can impact your life and change your whole
perception on things. Your mentor can be your mom, dad, sister, teacher, or a close friend. It can be anyone. Our teen readers share their story about the women who inspire them.
My mom is my mentor because she is a single mom and provides for me, plus my sisters and brother. She struggled when we were little because she never graduated from high school or college. She also struggled for money to provide for us. Despite all that, she made it work for us and herself. She always puts me and my siblings first and reminds me of how special I am to her. She never gives up on me and always lets me know how loved I am.
-Kristen 18
Someone that has made an impact on life is my second grade teacher. During first grade my teacher lied about my levels and how I was doing in reading and passed me anyway. However during second grade, my teacher informed my mom on this and the teacher did whatever she could to help me be at the level I was supposed to be at. She taught me to never give up and try as hard as I can to get to where I want and where I need to be at from now on. Now I haven't had a problem with reading and my teacher retired 3 years later and still went to my schools at lunch and called my current teachers to see how I was doing. Now she works for a program to teach new and current teachers how to connect with their students and be a good teacher.
Another person who has made an impact on my life was my aunt Jamie. She was the youngest of three kids and had diabetes. She had to take insulin. She taught me to be myself and never be afraid of what other people thought of me because it doesn't matter, all that matters is being yourself. In 2006, she died at 22 years old from a diabetic seizure, but she was the most important person in my life and the most unique person I will ever know.
-Desiree, 16
My freshmen year in high school was so difficult because I was so used to knowing everybody in middle school and luckily for me, Ms. Elberg helped me so much. Since freshmen year is the year, when you sort of start looking for yourself and find out what kind of person you want to become. You also start deciding where you want to go in life. I was so confused my first year because I thought everybody thought that I was smart and I would make the right choices. I had so many hopes and dreams and I wasn’t sure how I was going to do it, so Ms. Elberg guided me and made me believe in myself. -Norma, 16
A mentor in my life would be my mom. She’s been through a lot and she would make sure I never got on the wrong track no matter what is going on.
-Daniela, 16
My Mother is my role model and inspires me. For ten years, she’s been a single mom. When she was little, she watched her mother get beaten by her husband. My mother… she raised me on her own with my grandmother too, till I was ten. She always made sure I was taken care of, and if that meant she had to sacrifice she would do it.
-Cheyann, 15
February 2010
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